Instruction to
Authors
ISSN:
Print - 2277-9094

Web -
2277-9108

Manuscripts should be between 5000 and 8000
words, and must be submitted electronically in MS Word file
format. The manuscript must be accompanied by an
abstract/summary of NOT MORE THAN 250 words and a short note of
biographical details. Contributors should note that they are
addressing a diverse audience of academicia, policy makers,
administrators and development practitioners.

The manuscript should conform to
the template and house style given here, including page size and
margins (page
size10
incheslong
and7.5
incheswide,
with1 inchwide margin all
around).

Apart from the article/paper, the contributions should
include: (i) the name(s) of the author(s); (ii) the latter’s
professional affiliations; (iii) an abstract of the paper in not
more than 150 words; (iv) a Reference list at the end containing
details of all the References quoted in the paper.

Spellings: Use British spellings
throughout, not American spellings.

Notes: These should be numbered serially
in the text and expanded in the same chronological order at the end
of the text in the form of Endnotes.

Quotations: Use double quotation marks for
the entire quotation, reserving single quotation marks for quoted
words within a quotation. The spellings of words in the quotation
should be retained as in the original. In case of long quotations
(50 or more words), the quotation should be broken off from the
text and indented0.5 inch on the left, with a 1.5 line space above
and below the quotation. The quotations must be followed by all
relevant details including the name of the publication, author’s
name, year of publication, and page no(s).

Italics: Avoid italicising words
frequently as that affects readability. Italics should be used only
for book titles, journal names, foreign words (like
‘panchayat’, ‘bania’, ‘guru’, etc.), and
if a particular word needs to be emphasised.

Hyphenation: Use hyphens consistently
throughout the article. For instance, words like ‘macro-economic’,
‘micro-credit’, ‘sub-sets’, ‘long-term’, ‘short-term’,
‘short-circuit’, etc., if hyphenated once, should be hyphenated
throughout the text.

Capitals: Capital letters should be used
sparingly throughout the article as that affects readability.
Please refer to the attached Style Sheet for the Indian Journal of
Labour Economics to see where ALL CAPS should be used.

Numbers: Generally, numbers from one to
ten should be spelt out. Numbers above ten should be given in
figures. However, if several numbers occur in a sentence or
paragraph, all of them should be in figures, for easy readability.
In case of units or percentages, all numbers should be in figures.
For instance,3 km.,5 kg., 8 per cent, etc. In case of percentages,
the word ‘per cent’ should be spelt out in the text, but the symbol
% can be used in tables, graphs, figures and equations. In case of
large numbers, use only ‘millions’ and ‘thousands’, not ‘lakhs’ and
‘crores’.

Abbreviations: All abbreviations such as
‘pp.’, ‘vol.’, ‘no.’, ‘Dr.’, ‘Mr.’, ‘edn.’, ‘eds.’, etc. must end
with a full stop. There should also be full stops between initials
of names, such as V.K. Seth, G.K. Chadha, D.N. Reddy, etc. However,
in case of well known acronyms like USA, UK, NATO, UNO, UNESCO,
ILO, WTO, GATT, INTUC, AITUC, BJP, etc. there should not be full
stops between the initials. All acronyms should be spelt out at the
place of first occurrence with the acronym given in brackets.
Subsequently only the acronym can be used. For instance, at the
place of first usage, write Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY), but
subsequently, write only JRY.

Dates: Specific dates should be written
as, for instance,November 9, 2002. Decades should be referred to as
the 1980s, 1990s, etc. The names of years should be in figures
(1998, 2002, etc.), but the names of centuries should be spelt out
(twentieth century, twenty-first century, etc.).

Figures and Tables: Number each figure and
table. All figures and tables should appear at the relevant places
in the text and not at the end of the article. All figures and
tables should be referred to by their numbers in the text (for
instance, ‘Refer to Table1’, ‘Please see Figure3’, etc.). The
titles of the tables and figures should be brief and to the point.
The Source and Notes, if any, should be given at the bottom of the
table or figure. Within the table or figure, numbers should be
given in digits, not spelt out. Symbols like %, &, # should be
used, where required, within the table or figure.

Tables should be typed in Times New Roman 9 point font with
Table Footnote in Times New Roman 8 point font.

Tables should conform to the style attached. Tables should be
drawn in MS Word native format and not pasted from other
applications like MS Excel.

Tables/Figures should be
contained within the writable area of the page: should not be more
than5 incheswide and7.5 inchesin length. Tables/Figures
should not break across pages. Long Tables should be manually
divided into continuing parts, repeating headers for each
part.